Virgin Media

Virgin Media

Pissed rite off with these nob ends like, moving house, again, only this time my house doesnt have any Virgin services, yet allll the houses over the street do they can sing for a cancellation fee.

Dont understand why they cant just run a fucking cable over the road, said they may send out a "spotter"

Has any1 else actually had or heard of this problem?, am sure there all on bluddy pillfies those engineers, how can they miss out a fucking street.

As Telewest they ceased 'new' cabling to a set boundry. With new cables to new builds/estates only.

Dunno if its still the same under Virgin, but I did always think it would be a reat pisser to be on the other side of the line!

Unlucky!

Could get friendly with someone over the road and run a coax across the street!

only certain areas have cabled access. it depends on the state of the road/ground its running through whether it can be placed there. had this problem at my old address, the next street had cable but ours didnt because there was nowhere to put the cable.

you can still get good deals through a bt phoneline, just not as good through cable line

with us (talktalk) if we cant provide the same service in your new property we dont charge a disx fee

I live on an estate thats 3 years old and the useless cunts didnt bother putting it in here

Thanks for ur comments folks, looks like am up shite creek without a paddle, or a boat, infact im in the fuckin creek by the looks of it

I'll sort sumit out, BT line is my last option though, coz they pull ur pants down n boot u rite in the balls with there generous £133.33 installation fee.

Probly endup goin thru BT like

talk talk av heard some good things about them

WTF?

its £120 to get your line reconnected by BT if your provider disconnects you, but then that means you have to be in a 12mth contract with them. however the post office do line connections too, i think its £100 and you arent in any contract with them either

Aw rite al have a look like, a think theres a BT line in there actually, a mean if theres no cable theres bound to be a BT line

Seen a canny deal, think if the BT lines installed already, i can pay £10.50 a month n a get weekend calls to landlines free n virgin will run the internet though that line.

What a fucking clart on man, its 2009 whats gan on wires!

We moved to a relatively new development (Oct 05) last May. We were having problems with the shared arial so we looked into getting virgin. We were told by the phone-monkey that there was no service in our road as they can't put cable into new developments, they can only go back and install it 10 years later. Surely that is bollocks?

fucking hell mate you dont know the half of it, ive been doing me technical support 2nd line training today and been learning about ipstreams, dslmax and how to fix broadband, no sync issues, protocol handshakes - heads in bits !

Sky broadband is spot on, I pay 15 for it and get unlimited downloads and it never slows down, unfortunately I can only gey 3 meg but atleast its constant

ana what u mean, was the same when a started with dell a had to handle everyones problems on the phone at first, then moved onto repair etc. Good job though, sumthin that will always come in handy.

I agree with sky being better, not keen on browsing channels via virgin it's slow as shit, was the same when telewest had it aswell. Think i'll just be going to BT & runnin my virgin broadband through that as im stuck with a 12month rip.

sky or tiscali FTW like

Shite like, a dont really dowload alot n sometimes im lookin at an hour to download a set.

I see alot of the Watch films online sites have been closed down aswell lol a was moanin about it all not so long ago

I'm on O2 at the mo and I pay nowt for the first 7 months, then it's £9.75 after that for their 16mb package. My line will only hit 13mb like but it averages 8mb to be fair though.

They're the best I've been with so far on a BT line.

Never had a problem with Virgin and never been capped by them.

Will get their 50mb line too when it's rolled out in my area. Their 50mb and 20mb will be switched onto another server apparently as well and there will be no capping on either. There is deffo no capping or throttling on their 50mb

Virmin are about to introduce some restrictions though - P2P and torrent applications are going to get blocked.